Jabir
Jabir was given to 15 boys in 2025, #5,963 among boys’ names; 391 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jabir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jabir mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jabir is “a male given name from Arabic.”
Borrowed from Arabic جَابِر (jābir).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jabir?
#5,963 among boys’ names, 2025
Jabir fell from #5,600 in 2015 to #5,963 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 8.3 to 8.8 per million.
22 babies in 2019, the peak
Jabir peaked in 2019, when 22 boys were given it, #4,535 among boys’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 68% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #5,963 | 8.8 |
| 2024 | 17 | #5,521 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,677 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,279 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,291 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,110 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,535 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,824 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,150 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,399 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,600 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,134 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,761 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,573 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,564 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,843 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,570 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 10 | #7,916 | 4.9 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,276 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,126 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,706 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,914 | 5.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,828 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,061 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,148 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #8,912 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,597 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,710 | 5.3 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,960 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,151 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,958 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,680 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,799 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,828 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,452 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,199 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,414 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jabir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jabir has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jabir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jabir, and how old are they?
An estimated 384 Americans named Jabir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 389 people named Jabir (0 women and girls, 389 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 303 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,080 babies since 1880, Jabir is the third most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 35 babies (43%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jabir
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jabir and names like it
- Compare Jabir and JabbarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJabir peaked in 2019.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jabir since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Jabir: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Jabir.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jabir alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.